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Some Samsung printers have a hardcoded password which attackers could use to gain backdoor access to sensitive networks, according to a recent security warning.
The permanent password in Samsung printers and Dell-branded printers from Samsung, cannot be disabled or changed by users, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT) warned last Monday in an advisory. The password issue does not exist in Samsung models released after Oct. 31.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker could access an affected device with administrative privileges and make changes to the device configuration, collect data about devices connected to the network and all information sent to the printer, and remotely execute code on the printer, CERT warned. Attackers could get onto the network by using the permanent account. Once in, they could launch additional attacks against other devices on the network.
"Samsung printers contain a hardcoded SNMP full read-write community string that remains active even when SNMP is disabled in the printer management utility," the CERT advisory said.
Details of the Vulnerability
Samsung is aware of the issue and is preparing a patch tool to be released later this year to address vulnerable devices, the advisory said. Until then, CERT recommended administrators set up the printer to accept connection attempts only from trusted hosts and network, and reject all outside attempts using the hardcoded password.
Security researcher Neil Smith published more details about the built-in password on Tuesday. The only printers that weren't affected by the permanent password issue were "serious high-end" Samsung printers which run a different chip and operating system, Smith wrote on Twitter. HD Moore, Rapid7's chief security officer and chief architect, confirmed on Twitter the vulnerability existed on his Samsung SCX-472x Series printer.
Smith also suggested Samsung has not been very responsive about closing the vulnerability. "It's been frustrating working with Samsung. Internal ITsec at S confirmed it. Kr:HQ pulled them off. CERT pubd and so did I," Smith wrote on Twitter.


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Unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the dendritic graphene also was observed for the first time. This behavior is consistent with an electronic structure that is not perturbed by the underlying silver, providing a new system in which graphene is decoupled from its substrate. Because the graphene is electronically decoupled from the silver substrate, the intrinsic properties of graphene can be studied directly. This new growth method may enable improved interfacing of graphene with other two-dimensional materials — a vital step for the development of graphene-based circuits and other technologies.
Graphene, a one-atom-thick carbon layer with extraordinary conductivity and strength, holds promise for a range of applications. However, current methods for growing graphene on metals have been unsuccessful with silver. While graphene is conventionally grown on a metal surface by catalytically decomposing hydrocarbons at elevated temperatures, this method is ineffective for silver substrates because the substrates are chemically inert and have a relatively low melting point. Using a graphite carbon source, the team was able to grow graphene by depositing atomic carbon, rather than a carbon-based molecular precursor, onto the substrate. The growth circumvented the need for a chemically active surface and allowed the graphene growth at lower temperatures.
The researchers also found the graphene they grew was electronically decoupled from the underlying silver substrate, allowing the intrinsic properties of graphene to be studied and exploited directly on the growth substrate; this characteristic has not been previously observed with graphene grown on other metals. The researchers observed unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the graphene that had previously been observed only on insulating substrates.
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) was performed at CNM using an Omicron VT system with electrochemically etched tungsten tips at 55K. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) was simultaneously collected via periodic modulation to the applied voltage. Raman spectroscopy was taken with a Renishaw InVia Raman Microscope using a 514-nm laser line. Growing graphene on silver under ultrahigh-vacuum conditions could result in exceptionally pure samples that may present opportunities for ultrafast electronics and advanced optics.
B. Kiraly et al., "Solid-source growth and atomic-scale characterization of graphene on Ag(111)," Nat. Comm., 4, 2804 (2013).

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|INS Talwar at the President's Fleet Review on 20 Dec 2011
It took that photograph of the Talwar on December 20 off Mumbai, nine days before the incident in question: a sea swimming survival drill in the Arabian Sea, which involved officers and sailors jumping from the ship and rapidly swimming 50-meters away, simulating a jump-ship in the event of a hit or other accident. Sub Lt Kumar jumped, but failed to surface (ironically, he was a seasoned swimmer, ex-NDA). Elaborate search operations were conducted but he couldn't be found. First designated missing, he was later designated dead. On the ship's return, Captain Parmar was relieved of command. The navy has, however, said that the CO has been asked to step aside only so that the investigation isn't prejudiced.
The Talwar-class of ships are superb vessels, but this is the second time that a CO of one of these ships has lost command. On December 27, 2005, INS Trishul collided with a merchantman outside Mumbai harbour, an incident that first led to its commanding officer Captain Sunil Edwin David being relieved of command, but finally to his exit from service as well.
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A special court judge here on Thursday sentenced Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only gunman captured alive in the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, to death by hanging for murder, conspiracy, terrorism, and waging war against India.
The sentence ends the quickest major terror trial in India, though the execution is unlikely to happen any time soon. After just over a year in court, and a 90-minute sentencing hearing, Mr. Kasab now has the right to appeal to the Mumbai high court and the Supreme Court, and, finally, petition the president of India for mercy.
A subdued Mr. Kasab, clad in a white kurta, appeared upset when the sentence was first announced and was sent out of the courtroom for a glass of water. After his return, he kept his head down and a hand over his mouth until the end of the proceedings.
The 2008 attack, which targeted a city train station, two five-star-hotels, and a Jewish center, killed 166 people and injured 234. Kasab was one of two gunmen from Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba who opened fire on commuters at the historic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station downtown.
Special court judge M.L. Tahiliyani described Kasab's crime as "brutality writ large."
"Kasab has lost his right to get a humanitarian judgment," he said later.
The trial will "send a message to those who want to wage war with India," said Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, that they will be caught, and "tried and punished."
In past decade, one execution
For those sentenced to death, however, their punishment is often delayed for years. India has about 308 people on death row, according to the latest data available from 2007. Most of them are waiting on appeals to higher courts, and 49 of them are in the last stage of appeal to the president.
The 49 include three Sri Lankan Tamils convicted in the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and three others convicted in twin bomb blasts in Mumbai in 2003.
In the past decade India has executed only one person, a rapist and murderer, in 2004. No foreign national has been executed in India since its independence in 1947.
It is unclear whether Pakistan will continue to press for Kasab's extradition. Relations between the two countries worsened after the 2008 attack, when India accused Pakistan of not cracking down on Lashkar-e-Taiba, and have only recently begun to improve.
In Mumbai, the sentencing was widely anticipated. In interviews with the local media this week, residents and relatives of the victims had been mostly calling for a death sentence. Some, like Ransley Santhumayor, who was shot four times in the leg by a gunman at Leopold Cafe near the Taj Hotel, say the sentence brings no relief.
"Hanging this guy is not going to fix anything, it's one more person dying," says Mr. Santhumayor. "At least if they rehabilitated him, some people may be inspired ... and there may be a few less Kasabs."
'No mitigating circumstance'
On Thursday, the judge accepted the prosecution's arguments that Kasab deserved to be hanged not just for the gravity of his crime but for the manner in which it was done. Kasab displayed extreme cruelty in his attack on the city's biggest train station and appeared to enjoy killing commuters, the prosecution argued.
Judge Tahiliyani agreed. "No words can express the brutality" of this crime, the judge said, noting that Kasab fired indiscriminately at women and children and showed no remorse.
The judge also invoked the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight, in which passengers were held hostage in Kandahar, Afghanistan, by terrorists until three top Islamic militants were released from Indian jails. One was Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who went on to kidnap and kill American journalist Daniel Pearl.
"To my mind, keeping such persons alive leaves a big danger hanging over the government," Mr. Tahiliyani said.
Kasab's defense lawyer, appointed by the court, pleaded for the lesser sentence of life imprisonment. He said Kasab was young, had been acting under the influence of others, and could be reformed.
But the judge rejected these arguments, saying, "No mitigating circumstance could tilt the balance toward a lesser sentence."
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|The Team
|The Project
iGEM 2008 at USU
The 2008 USU Team
What we did
Jun-Ling Huo is a PhD student who served as an advisor for the iGEM team. He helped to answer student questions, and guide team work and discussion.
Stephen Merrigan is currently working on a MS in Biological Engineering at Utah State studying biodiesel production from algae, and has a background in Microbiology. Stephen's primary role was as an advisor for the project. During the first few months of the project Stephen did background research on project topics. He also helped with lab work when necessary, including DNA purification. Stephen also advised on the wiki construction.
Joseph Camire worked on targeting the amplification of the full phaCAB cassette and phaC gene,optimizing the PCR process and testing of primer sets with and without prefix and suffix regions. His work also involved sequence determination and analysis of the phaCAB cassette contained in the source plasmid. The work on the phaC gene was targeted at amplification and preparation of the gene for site-directed mutagenesis for removal of a critical restriction enzyme site prior to ligation of a new phaCAB cassette for biobrick construction.
Trent Mortensen is a finishing senior in Biological Engineering. His main research direction is biomedical in nature, using herbal antibiotics as possible alternatives for disease treatment. As part of the USU iGEM team, he played an active role in the planning of the project, group coordination, advising professor consultation, laboratory work, ordering of materials, lab maintenance, Wiki preparation, documentation, and presentation preparations throughout the course of the project.
Libbie Linton is a Biological Engineering student. Her research is focused on the the analysis and verification of gas chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance methods for the quantification of intracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates in bacterial and environmental samples. For the iGEM team, Libbie helped in project determination and planning, as well as literature review and topic research. She also carried out work in the laboratory like restriction enzyme digestions, gel electrophoresis, DNA isolation, and bacterial transformations. She was also responsible for coordinating efforts and organizing the wiki.
Daniel Nelson is pursuing a degree in Biological Engineering and his current personal research project is "Omega-3 Fatty Acid Production and Extraction in Schizochytrium limacinum SR21." He has enjoyed participating in group discussions as project ideas and direction have been determined. In the lab, he has worked with the team to isolate, purify, and analyze the key DNA promoters for the PHB synthesis gene. He hopes that through study of these promoter regions, the team will find a way to increase PHB production and create a general gene expression system to monitor cellular product accumulation. Outside of the lab, he has helped to design the logo for the USU team.
Kirsten Sims
Rachel Porter
Garrett Hinton was part of the final experimental design. Garrett was a huge part of the lab work that has taken place during this experiment. Garrett is a junior at Sky View High School in Logan Utah.
Matthew Sims was a huge part of the lab work that has taken place during this experiment. Matthew is a junior at Logan High School
Where we're from
Utah State University is located in Logan, Utah. Logan is about 85 miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah. The city of Logan is located in the heart of Cache Valley near the on the western slopes of the Bear River Mountains, the northernmost branch of the Wasatch Range. The city has a population of approximately 47,000. Logan was established in 1859 and has a rich heritage and wonderful culture. The city of Logan has been stated to be among the safest cities in America.
Utah State University was founded in 1888 and has evolved from a small, agricultural college to a university that is nationally and internationally recognized for its intellectual and technological leadership. As Utah's land-grant and space-grant institution, the university is led by President Stan L. Albrecht and has 850 faculty who provide education for more than 23,000 undergraduate and graduate students, including 10,000 in its continuing education sites located throughout the state of Utah. USU has more than 200 buildings, 63 of which are devoted to academics. USU also has 3 branch campuses and Extension offices in all of Utah's 29 counties (usu.edu).


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By Tessa Raebeck; photography by Michael Heller
In annual Veterans Day celebrations this week, Sag Harbor residents recognized that honoring village veterans is a year round duty, not a daylong event. Whether by visiting a monument, putting up a plaque or rubbing a gravestone, veterans and community members work to celebrate our heroes throughout the year, and those efforts were officially recognized with commemorative events Monday.
From Cub Scouts to World War II veterans, troops in uniform kicked off the holiday at the annual Veterans Day Parade through Sag Harbor Village Monday morning. After the parade, government officials and honored servicemen gathered outside the American Legion Chelberg and Battle Post 388 on Bay Street. Following speeches, about 40 residents headed over to the Ferry Road Cemetery in North Haven to hear village historian Joe Zaykowski present a lecture on the cemetery restoration and the lives of veterans resting there.
At the American Legion Hall, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9082 Commander Roger King, who served two terms in Iraq, spoke of veterans' "sacrifice for the common good," and the symbolic significance of this year's restoration of the federal holiday to November 11.
Veterans Day is always observed on November 11; however, in 2012, for example, the official federal holiday fell on November 12 because it was a Monday. King recognized the significance of the holiday returning to November 11 as it coincides with Armistice Day, which marks the settlement signed at the end of World War I on "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
Post Commander Marty Knab said the day's events were intended not only to thank those who fought in battle, but also to thank and honor all who have served honorably in the military in any capacity, be it wartime or peacetime. While recognizing the ultimate sacrifice of those killed in battle, Knab hoped to also underscore the fact that all who served have made huge sacrifices for their country.
"Not all veterans have seen war," Knab told the crowd. "But a common bond that they share is an oath in which they express their willingness to die defending this nation. Perhaps most significant in preserving our way of life are the battles that America does not have to fight, because those who wish us harm slink away in fear of the Coast Guard cutter, the Navy aircraft carrier, the Air Force Fighter Squadron, or the Army soldier on patrol."
"Our country finds these men and women in the many small communities around our country, like our own Village of Sag Harbor," he continued.
Local writer and World War II veteran Robert Riskin, whose officer encouraged him to pursue a writing career, spoke of his visit in September to the World War II monument in Washington, D.C. Riskin's trip was facilitated by the Honor Flight Network, an organization that honors veterans by transporting them to visit their memorials.
"I was not very excited about going," admitted Riskin. "And then I thought, 'Well, it's free…so what the hell? I'll try it.'"
Accompanied by Knab, Riskin enjoyed a motorcycle escort, bagpipe serenade and a welcoming reception from Naval Academy plebes on the daylong trip to Washington.
"I almost broke down, it was just such an incredible feeling of love," he said, adding, "the memorial itself is just about one of the most fantastic things you'll ever see … the emotions that it brings up are very, very strong."
After the veterans' speeches, New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. presented a proclamation, "the state's highest honor," he noted, to Sag Harbor Village Mayor Brian Gilbride and dockmaster David Thommen commemorating Sag Harbor's heroic moment in the War of 1812. Two hundred years ago in July 1813, British troops stationed off the Long Island coast attempted to invade and pillage the small seaside village of Sag Harbor, as they had done to countless towns across the island. Greeted by a group of residents and militiamen on shore, the British quickly retreated, recognizing that whatever goods they could plunder were not worth a battle against the spirited community.
"We repelled the British. They never returned again until the British invasion of 1964," Thiele joked, referring to The Beatles.
The assemblyman spoke of his own childhood playing around the old fort on High Street, but he never knew the story behind it.
"We all know it today and it's because of the single-handed volunteer efforts of David Thommen," said Thiele of the village dockmaster, who revitalized the fort – and the community's knowledge of its own heroism — by dedicating a plaque and raising a flag there last July.
"This is about the veterans from the first militias in 1620 to the returning soldiers today," said Thommen, accepting the proclamation.
Following the ceremony, North Haven Village Historian Joe Zaykowski gave a presentation to a crowd at the Ferry Road Cemetery on Route 114. Zaykowski successfully restored the gravestones there and, in doing so, unearthed the stories of some of North Haven's earliest residents.
Zaykowski spoke of the life and lineage of John Payne, Sr., a veteran of both the colonial French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, who died 200 years ago in November 1813 and was laid to rest on Ferry Road. Payne's gravestone was ineligible, cracked and scattered until Zaykowski's restoration.
Zaykowski spoke extensively on the history of North Haven, with specific knowledge of lineages, burial techniques and even houses — several of which remain in the village today. His brother-in-law, Philip Reynolds, played period music from the Revolutionary War era on his saxophone.
In 1781, Payne received nine pounds, 19 shillings and one penny for his service in the Revolutionary War, according to Zaykowski.
"I cannot tell you that John Payne was a so-called war hero," Zaykowski, himself a veteran of the Vietnam War, told the crowd. "That's not important; He served his country, served it well I'm sure."
In attendance to hear Zaykowski's talk was Alexandra Binder, who lives on Shelter Island with her fiancé Beau Payne, a direct descendant of John Payne. Eager to learn more of her new family's extensive local history, Binder was ecstatic to have the aid of Zaykowski, who has traced the Payne's lineage all the way back to England prior to the colonization of America.


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Philippe Starck and Emeco came together to create a new chair that is reclaimed, repurposed, recyclable – and designed to last. The chair is made from 75% waste polypropylene and 15% reclaimed wood fiber that would normally be swept into the trash, "Imagine", says Philippe Starck, "a guy who takes a humble broom and starts to clean the workshop and with this dust he makes new magic". That's why we call it Broom chair.
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How do emotions change our political attitudes?
Politicians know that turning on the tears can be a vote winner, but how does the political manipulation of our emotions actually work? Research in Political Psychology explores how emotions such as anxiety, even if their cause has nothing to do with politics, can result in a hardening of our views.
"There's been a lot of focus in recent years on emotions and political attitudes, but the ways we, as political scientists, have studied this phenomena have made it hard to draw firm conclusions," said Dr. Jonathan Renshon, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "We bypassed many of the methodological problems of previous studies by inducing an emotion unrelated to politics and measuring its effects not with self-reports but with tonic skin conductance."
The authors believed that induced anxiety could 'carry over' to impact political beliefs, potentially triggering prejudice toward groups such as immigrants. When anxiety levels are high voters are more likely to recall negative experiences with immigrants and interpret ambiguous information in a more negative and threatening manner.
To test the theory 138 men from Cambridge, Massachusetts were asked to watch a series of videos before answering surveys. First the group watched relaxing images of beaches and palm trees, before being divided into groups. Two groups watched soothing music or a screensaver of abstract shapes.. The third group was subjected to Sylvester Stallone's "Cliffhanger."
The results showed that the heightened physiological reactivity caused by watching two minutes of rope dangling peril, led to stronger anti-immigration attitudes.
"We found that the anxiety we generated was powerful enough that people couldn't simply turn it off, it carried over to unrelated domains and actually influenced people's political beliefs, particularly their attitudes towards immigrants," concluded Renshon. "This is all the more important as political campaigns become more adept at stimulating and manipulating the emotions of the general public."
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The country has upped its expectations significantly from 2007, when the forecast figures were 12GW and 22.6TWh, respectively. While ambitious, Italy's objectives for wind are seen as achievable by most industry participants despite investor jitters about incentives.
According to the draft plan, 15GW of onshore and 1GW of offshore wind farms will be operating by 2020. Italy currently has more than 5GW onshore, but no offshore wind farms have won full authorisation. While Italy has upped its overall capacity forecast, the offshore target has been halved.
The Italian plan indicates that renewable energy should represent 29% of all Italian electricity consumption by 2020, with annual production of 105TWh. Wind energy should account for 23% of all electricity from renewable sources that year and 6.6% of total forecast electricity consumption, becoming the second-most important renewable energy source for electricity generation behind the already mature hydroelectric power sector.
The Italian government believes imports from other EU and non-EU states will be needed to meet its binding target of 17% of energy consumption from renewable sources. Some renewable energy could come from wind-generated electricity abroad, such as the 500MW wind farm being developed by Italian firm Moncada in Albania.
Italian renewable energy association Associazione Produttori Energia da Fonti Rinnovabili (APER) says that the action plan is a very important step towards Italy's 2020 obligations but stresses that the government needs to simplify the authorisation process for renewable projects.
APER has also asked the government to avoid measures incompatible with the 2020 objectives, including a cabinet bill approved in May to cancel the annual buy-back of excess green certificates on the part of Italian renewable energy promotion agency Gestore dei Servizi Energetici. Parliament looked set to reconsider that measure in July, after protests by renewable energy associations and the business community that the price for green certificates could collapse, freezing investments in the sector and making 2020 objectives unreachable.


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Media Confirmation about Attempts for assassination of Hassan Nasrallah (Leader of Hezbollah) year 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book Published January 27, 2018 :
Three Clairvoyants predicting to : Bashar al-Assad, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Qatar), Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Benjamin Netanyahu, the Leaders of Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Devlet Bahceli , Kurdistan…
Authored by Clairvoyant : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
Published January 27, 2018
Only a small part of Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for :
Hassan Nasrallah (Leader of Hezbollah) – Magic, inverse luck – when? Prominent assassinations , New leader of Hezbollah – when? Omens, natural cataclysms – when? War, Elections in Lebanon – when? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions January 5, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo : January 3, 2018. Time – after the photo.
……November 2018 – there is a change in the policy of Hezbollah, a new partner – Moscow and a relief for Hassan Narallah . Year 2018 – there will be twice assaults for his life with weapons and twice with a poison – November – December 2018 (around November 8 and December 20, 2018)…..
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Israeli military commander calls for Hezbollah leader's assassination – Nov 26, 2018
Colonel Roy Levy, in an article published in the Hebrew-language Ma'arakhot magazine, which is affiliated to the Israeli army, wrote that "targeted killings" must be carried out, and that Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah should be killed by commando forces backed by the air force, the Hebrew-language Walla news website reported.
On November 28, 2017, the Israeli military's chief spokesman said Nasrallah would be a target for assassination in any war between Israel and Hezbollah.


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Flavoured yoghurts
Polskie smaki z musem (Polish Flavours with Mousse)
Polskie Smaki z Musem (Polish Flavours with Mousse) is something more than traditional yoghurt – it is an exceptional connection of yoghurt and dessert, milk and fruit mousse and flavour.
Double-layer yoghurt with fruit mousse available on the market. Perfect snack, giving pleasure and fun.
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They are one of the most important bacteria from the point of view of functioning of intestinal microflora because they constitute its inherent part. Their important function is creating a counterweight for harmful bacteria.
Yoghurt is much easier digested than milk, because a part of the process of digesting proteins, carbohydrates and fat, has already been done by yoghurt bacteria during the souring process.
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Drinking yoghurts do not differ essentially in terms of their action from traditional yoghurts.
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Some 20 years after welcoming two daughters into the world — and 17 years after his vasectomy — Rick Perk found a second shot at love and yearned for a second chance at children.
So, then pushing age 50, Perk got unsnipped in 2010. But he didn't know if the delicate operation worked until his current wife, Erin, 31, phoned while Perk was chauffeuring one of his girls home from a college visit.
"It was St. Patrick's Day last year and Erin is Irish so her friends had wanted her to go out. She'd said no, that something was feeling different. She picked up a pregnancy test then called and broke the news," Perk recalled. "I almost drove off the road, I was so excited."
Last November, Erin gave birth to Lucy. Perk still has that positive test strip stashed at his suburban Cleveland home.
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A rising number of American men who underwent vasectomies — a procedure once considered permanent — are choosing microsurgeries to re-hook or reroute their reproductive tubes, effectively restoring their fertility, according to two leading urologists.
"There has been an increase in who men seek reversals," said Dr. Edmund Sabanegh, chair of the urology department at the Cleveland Clinic. "This is (partly) because some men originally pursued a vasectomy, thinking it was an easily reversible form of contraception — a notion we discourage."
According to Sabanegh, who serves as treasurer of the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction, more than a half million vasectomies are performed annually in this country and as many as 10 percent of those men later seek reversals. While more precise statistics on the increase in reversals among American men are not available, the rising trend is reported anecdotally among urologists.
The unsnipping surge has gained fresh momentum as more health-insurance providers opt to pay for the operation. Meanwhile, surgeons have gained the ability to magnify miniscule male sex machinery 25 times beyond the strength of the naked eye, allowing doctors to help men sterilized by choice once again produce sperm, the doctors said. The procedure works more than 90 percent of the time.
"Insurance companies are beginning to cover vasectomy reversals because the success rate of reversals is as good — if not better — than in vitro fertilizations (for women), in terms of live pregnancies," said Dr. Natan Bar-Chama, a male infertility specialist and urologist at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York.
"This procedure can result in pregnancy yet avoid the multiple births (often caused by expensive IVF treatments) — and avoid the medical complications associated with multiples," Bar-Chama said "So, yes, more health care providers and more couples, of course, prefer a more natural way of conceiving."
Men who want a vasectomy do-over typically offer one of three reasons to their doctors. Some believed they and their wife were done having babies but eventually come to realize they desire more kids. Some lost children to illness or accidents — "truly, the saddest stories," Sabanegh said.
And many candidates like Perk already have older children but get divorced, then remarried.
"Erin and I just wanted to share that with each other," said Perk, who works in sales for a tech company. "It was tough because I kept hearing that the longer you waited, the less your chances of success.
"We talked about it while we were dating, more seriously after we were married. And then we thought, let's do it as soon as possible before our chances decrease even more and before I get too old to parent properly."
Indeed, a lengthy gap between an original vasectomy and a reversal surgery can boost the odds that pressure will build "upstream" from the doctor-made dam in a tiny tubule called the epididymis. That narrow, coiled piping connects ducts in the back of each testicle to the vas deferens, a vessel that transports sperm before ejaculation.
Over time, too much pressure in a purposely plugged epididymis can cause a rupture, forming a secondary — albeit non-painful — blockage, Sabanegh.
"In those cases, because of that long-standing (secondary) obstruction, we can't do a regular reversal," Sabanegh said. "We have to do what's known as a vasoepididymostomy" — essentially constructing a bypass to the epididymis, a man's sperm-storage reservoir.
"We used to think if it got to be 10 years out, your odds of success were very low," Sabanegh said. "We now realize that, with some of the new surgical techniques and (magnification) advances, the odds still stay pretty high."
Despite the 17-year wait to undo his vasectomy, Perk learned that he required the most routine form of reversal, one in which a surgeon (Sabanegh) uses tiny incisions to implant 16 to 20 sutures — only visible under a microscope — in order to re-tie two severed ends of the tube that carries sperm.
The outpatient operation typically requires anesthesia and lasts two to three hours. Couples can start trying to conceive as early as three weeks after the surgery.
"We were really thrilled for Mr. Perk and his wife," Sabanegh said.
With Lucy now almost 7 months old, the Perks are talking about conceiving again.
But after that, will Perk undergo a second snip job?
"Uh … no," he said with a laugh as his wife listened a few feet away. "No, I will not do another vasectomy."
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The battle over police practices in New York is now being waged on paper. On April 27, one year after it first announced its investigation of the NYPD, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission released a much anticipated 250-page draft report. The Police Department weighed in on May 16 with an angry 700-page rebuttal.
The Commission faults the NYPD for inadequate diversity training and failed minority recruiting efforts, but its most serious charge is that police officers use racial profiling in their stop-and-frisk tactics. The report cites the Department's own records, which show that in Staten Island, for example, 51% of the people stopped in 1998 were black, though blacks make up only 9% of the borough's population.
The report dismisses the Department's claims that stop-and-frisks occur most often in high-crime, minority neighborhoods, and that officers are simply responding to descriptions of suspects as reported to them. After reviewing nearly 150,000 records of stops made in 1998, the Commission determined that officers usually acted on their own judgments and observations, rather than victim identifications.
In its rebuttal, the NYPD disparages the report as "an unfortunate exercise in shoddy reporting" and "an embarrassment to the United States government." In particular, the Department ridicules the Commission's reliance on perennial police critics Al Sharpton and the New York Civil Liberties Union's Norman Siegel. Mayor Giuliani has called the report "a political operation of the Democratic Party," neatly timed to give Hillary Clinton a boost for her Senate run. (The Commission consists of an eight-member panel of four Democrats, three independents, and one Republican. The New York Observer has reported that the head of the Commission's head, Mary Frances Berry, has made campaign contributions to Hillary.
Jerome Sounds Off:
For all the controversy it has created, the Civil Rights Commission report contains little that New Yorkers haven't heard before. In restrained language, bolstered by numerous charts and citations of hundreds of thousands of documents reviewed by its panel, the report makes some familiar accusations, but also pats the NYPD on the back in several instances.
The Commission offers some remedies that are unrealistic (officers should live in the City) or ill-begotten (the elitist proposal that officers be required to have four-years of college instead of two because better-educated officers are less likely to engage in misconduct). Another recommendation, the formation of an independent monitor to review civilian complaints of police misconduct, would in effect create a second oversight agency to monitor the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
The Commission finally gets it right when it discusses the pressure felt throughout the NYPD"from Commanding Officers to beat cops"to produce arrests. Could it be that if the Department eases up on quotas to make collars and stands down the armies of Operation Condor personnel, it will help defuse the issue of police misconduct? It may be wishful thinking, but the Mayor's newest resolution to reach out to all the City's residents may give his administration one last chance to find out.
Jerome Chou is a freelance writer. He works part-time interviewing recently released ex-offenders about their re-entry into society.


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Ashley Greene on Beauty Advice and Being Yourself
If there is one thing Teen Vogue is all about, it's girl power! So, naturally, I was super-pumped when I had the chance to do a red carpet interview with Twilight star Ashley Greene at the Avon Foundation Global Voices for Change Gala, which honored those who work hard to eradicate breast cancer and domestic violence against women.
Ashley, who is a Mark for Avon brand ambassador, dazzled in a stunning blue Donna Karan dress, and her makeup and hair perfectly channeled Old Hollywood glamour, thanks to celebrity makeup artist Mai Quynh and superstar hairstylist Ted Gibson. Want to know Ashley's favorite beauty products and tips? Check out our interview below!
Why is the message behind Avon's gala important for Teen Vogue readers?
The gala tonight is meant to raise awareness for breast cancer and domestic violence. As we all know, breast cancer affects everyone, regardless of age. Some girls are young, so it's important to be aware and to try and fight for a cure. Many people might not know this, but domestic violence against young women is very common, especially between the ages of 16 to 24. This is unacceptable, and it's important for young women to be well-educated about these issues and know that there is a place to turn to. There is something they can do.
Has your makeup look changed at all since you started working with Mark?
I've been able to explore a lot more makeup-wise than I have in the past! I'm a very simple girl, so it's been fun to go on photo shoots and to events, and have one of the Mark makeup artists come and work on me. Mark has a lot of fun colors!
You have a bright pink lip on right now. What are your tips on how to wear color?
Keep it sheer and simple, especially if you're wearing a bright dress, like I am tonight. You don't want to go overboard with color—just balance it out. If you go heavy on the lips, keep your eyes simple. Another thing: never match your eye color with your dress! I think we've all done that at some point in time...
What's your number one beauty tip?
Less is always more! Accentuate what you have with makeup rather than trying to cover yourself up!
Tonight is all about self-empowerment. What would you say to your teenage self about inner beauty and confidence?
I would have told her, "You'll grow into yourself and you'll figure it out." When you're young, it can be a hard time because you're just figuring out who you are. It can make you freak out a little bit—I know I certainly did. I'm now 24, and I just started figuring out who I am. Be patient, you'll get there!
What's your must-have Mark product?
Definitely their Light Bright Lighten & Depuff Eye Gel. I fly a lot, so it's perfect for tired eyes. I also love the Gloss Gorgeous Stay on Lip Stain, which I'm wearing tonight. I love it because you don't have to apply so much of it.
Dream beauty team Ted Gibson and Mai Quynh gave us the lowdown on what products they used on Ashley. View the slideshow to find out how to get the look!


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Jovan VI (Vraniškovski) of Ohrid
His Eminence the Most Reverend Archbishop Jovan (Vraniskovski) is the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje.
He was born on February 28, 1966 in Bitola, Yugoslavia and baptized as an Orthodox Christian named Zoran. He completed his primary school and mathematical high school in his native town, receiving many awards for achievements in the fields of science and sports. In 1985, after having served his military obligation in Sarajevo, he began studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Skopje, graduating in 1990.
Later in 1990, he enrolled the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade while working as a civil engineer with the Metropolitanate of Bitola. While employed by the metropolis, he established its library in collaboration with the local University Library of Bitola, while serving also as the new library's first librarian. During his two and half years in this position the young Zoran gave a series of lectures.
In 1993, he left Bitola for Belgrade to continue his studies in theology, graduating in June 1995. Immediately, he began his master's studies at the Department of Systematic Theology (Dogmatics). At the end of 1995, he moved to Thessalonica in Greece to learn Greek and enroll for postgraduate studies. In Thessalonica, he worked on his doctorate and a dissertation entitled: The Unity of the Church and the Contemporary Ecclesiological Problem.
On February 7, 1998, he took monastic vows, was tonsured a monk with the name Jovan (John), and was ordained a deacon. The following day, February 8, he was ordained to the priesthood, becoming a hieromonk. On July 19, 1998, Fr. John was consecrated a bishop with the title of Bishop of Dremvica and assigned as vicar to the Bishop of Prespa and Pelagonia. In this position, and in addition to taking part theological consultations, Bp. John led the effort for reconstruction of the Cathedral Church of St. Great Martyr Demetrius in Bitola. In March 2000, he was assigned as administrator of the Metropolitanate of Bregalnica. In November 2000, Bp. John was elected Bishop of Veles and Vardar Valley and enthroned on December 4 2000.
With the separation of the member states of Yugoslavia after the fall of communism, Macedonia also declared its independence and a schismatic Macedonian Orthodox Church formed. Leading the Holy Metropolitanate of Veles and Vardar Valley, on June 22, 2002, Metr. John responded to summon for liturgical and canonical unity with the Patriarchate of Pec by Patriarch of Serbia, Pavle. Together with all his clergy and faithful of his Metropolitanate, Metr. John was the only Bishop of the schismatic Macedonian Orthodox Church who responded positively.
A few days later, he was expelled from the seat of the Metropolitanate together with the monastic community living with him. This was done illegally and without a court warrant by the Police of the Republic of Macedonia. On September 23, 2002, Metr. John was appointed Exarch of all the territories of the Ohrid Archdiocese by the Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church. On December 25, 2003, he was elected Chairman of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Ohrid Archdiocese, after it had been constituted.
He was detained under custody many times by the authorities of the Republic of Macedonia. He was sentenced to a suspended punishment one year of imprisonment for the criminal offense of «"performing unauthorized activities" because he had entered a church to baptize a female infant in 2004. The Court of Appeal in Bitola sentenced him to eighteen months of imprisonment in 2005 as judgment for a criminal offense of "incitement of ethnic and religious hatred, discord and intolerance".
On May 24, 2005, on the Feast of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius, he was confirmed by his Holiness, the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Patriarch of Serbia, Pavle, to be Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje in accordance with the Niš Agreement. On the same day, there was an announcement of the Patriarchal and the Assembly's Tomos for Autonomy of the Ohrid Archdiocese, with Metr. John as the Chairman of the Holy Synod of Bishops.


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Voters will decide if fluoride is added to city drinking water, but most likely not until November 2008.
Voters will decide if fluoride is added to city drinking water, but most likely not until November 2008.
The City Council accepted a petition Thursday night signed by more than 400 registered voters opposed to adding fluoride to city water.
"It's rewarding to get to this point," said Kirk Huttleston, the Chestnut Street resident who headed the grassroots petition drive. "We've been working towards this day for about 15 months."
City Manager Mark Ryckman said the document will be forwarded to city attorney Pam Gee for review and to determine if a local law is needed to put the issue to a public referendum.
Mayor Frank Coccho said he is confident the city will need to adopt a local law prior to the issue being placed on a ballot.
Adopting a local law would require two separate council votes and a public hearing over a 30-day period.
"It's my opinion this will be untimely for the 2007 election ballot," Coccho said.
Huttleston conceded that time will likely run out to wrap up all the details before Oct. 1, deadline to place items on the Nov. 6, general election ballot.
"There are substantially steps that need to be done," Huttleston said. "So it looks like this will not be voted on until 2008, but if that's the case that's fine."
Gee told city leaders in July that a petition signed by 10 percent of the city's registered voters who cast a ballot in the last gubernatorial election could force the issue to a public vote.
The City Council voted, 7-2, in May to fluoridate the city's water after supporters came up with $100,000, roughly half of the start-up costs. The remaining costs will be paid for by the city.
City leaders have said if the referendum vote is pushed back until 2008 if would have little effect on the project, which is not slated to begin until 2009.
Tom Reed, the man Coccho will face in the Nov. 6, general election, helped carry petitions to drive the controversial issue to a public vote.
Coccho, a fluoride supporter, has supported a referendum on the issue.


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First of all, I do not think any business wants consumers to focus on any aspect of its services that can be measured quantitativly unless it is very sure that it can maintain its advantadge. For example, if an airline drew a lot of attention to its punctuality by providing detailed statistics, then later it had a "less punctual" period, it would have a difficult time explaining why it would no longer be calling peoples' attention to its detailed statisitcs. (And, for some reason I don't entirely understand, no corporation is ever allowed to admit to having ever made any kind of mistake.)
Another possible reason is the threat of litigation. My aunt works in advertising, and she says her company's legal department is always trying to get them to avoid making specific claims because a competitor will dispute it and sue them.
It is outlandish to think the new facebook advertising platform is going to perform better than Google Adwords. Facebook's current platform produces about $.10 per 1000 impressions. Google earns $20+ per 1000 searches in the US. Targeting a user profile (Facebook) will always be an order of magnitude worse than targeting what the user is looking for at that instant (Google).
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I think that aside about Facebook is rooted in the idea that Facebook, with a great many number of useful data points, will be better able to "pinpoint ads to particular tastes of the viewer" than Google's system of relying primarily on search terms (and this doesn't suppose Facebook will have a better system for monetization or to suit the marketer, but perhaps for the user).
Facebook has person-specific and easily manipulatable data that is relevant to a great deal of potential advertising and so might provide data more useful to the user, than might be possible from compilations of search terms.
There is no necessary connection between his aside and any idea that Facebook's plan will surpass Google in terms of revenue generation.
That being said, I think one might hedge the use of "always" and surmise that it is possible that Facebook could leverage, in marketing their ad-system to-their-users, the fact that they have so many data points on each user, on average, in a great many areas and so will provide great product suggestions and so on.
Of course, we all trust Google, and know that Google will do no evil, and so Google could offer an opt-in system of the same sort, requesting data points that the user knows will be used explicitly for this. Why they haven't done this already is not apparent, seeing how freely people provide information on the web.
I think some of the mystery can be resolved if one realizes that mass-advertising, just like political advertising, is only targeted towards a small slice of the audience.
In political campaigns, ads are only expected to have swaying or persuasive power on a small fraction of undecided centrists. Of course, motivating a small number of non-voters to go to the polls, or getting even a few percent of marginal voters to switch sides, can win elections in these 50-50 days.
With mass advertising, businesses create ads that target the portion of consumers that are susceptible and suggestible to advertising in the first place. There's no way to be certain, but I suspect that this portion is a small fraction.
When I buy airline tickets, my decision is advertising-insensitive (or so I like to think). I use the price-aggregator websites, like expedia, orbitz, and kayak to find the best deal, and then see if certain "upgrades" (like flying non-stop or business class) in my experience are worth the premiums.
One of those upgrades is the airline itself, since experiences with delays, overbooking, stress-level of employees, frills, seat-space, etc... tend to vary greatly across the industry. Based on my personal experience, and the word-of-mouth reporting of others - I can generally guess accurately how good or bad my experience will be.
That decision-making process seems almost universal among those to whom I've spoken about it. When viewing airline advertisements, they not only seem ridiculous to me personally, but it's hard for me to understand how they would work on anyone at all in this internet era. If one assumes that the kind of "airline-brand suggestible" people tend to have lower-incomes, then they would tend to be even more price-sensitive and less brand-loyal than others and the ad effect would wear off when they got to the point of booking.
It would be irrational for any airline to advertise if they didn't believe that doing so would produce enough extra business profit to more than compensate for the price of the ads. Absent some strong (but very hard to assess) evidence from their marketing firms, perhaps the airline executives are simply being irrational and relying on an old technique that no longer works.
Posner's choice of topic seems more of a lament about the what's happening to the airline industry than one about false or misleading advertising. Much of the problem is that of a system striving to operate at maximum capacity coupled with an inability to cooperate with its competitors in a way that would seemingly improve service and lower overall costs.
Remember the days before "dereg" when Green was delayed and they just sent you down the row with a voucher to take an empty seat on Red or Orange? It would seem that today with the quest for maxxing seat miles that such a cooperative system would return.
Today, as "China's" comment on using Expedia indicates flying has largely become a generic commodity and one in which leisure travel is extremely price sensitive, so the fundamentals would point to beating down prices below the cost of operation and providing even lower standards of service. Trying to take a price increase to cover the soaring fuel prices will likely make things worse.
I suspect the situation is ripe for the current "air buses" for most of us while elite airlines develop for the business traveler with tight schedules to meet, except that popular airports don't have the capacity for them.
China, good comments on political advertising. Advertising air travel or most other products the ad budget is self-limiting as management finds that a bigger budget is not justified in terms of units sold.
Political advertising is very different in that the value of that last vote needed to win is worth the entire campaign or more and the reason that current naive attempts to fiddle with campaign reform at the margins is futile; the money is the mechanism and "serious" candidates must get it, one way or another.
No Jack. Its about advertising. Idiot.
Whether Facebook's ad network will result in better conversion ratios than Google's Ad Sense is still an open question. Search text is still the most immediate and direct information about what a consumer wants. But there is no question that user profile information will improve conversion ratios by improving demographic targeting -- especially when in the context of a particular activity.
In a very abstract sense ad targeting is a little like interpreting texts. As Judge Posner makes the point in one of my favorite books of his, The Problematics of Jurisprudence, a text by itself can mean many different things. The purpose of the interpreter is very important in determing "literal" meaning.
I think it is almost always a mistake to mention one's competitor in advertising.
It increases simple awareness of the competitor's brand.
It suggests that the competitor is an important peer company and worthy of consideration.
There is the danger that the viewer will forget which of the two brands mentioned was supposedly the superior one.
There is the danger that the viewer will find the comparison overstated or mean-spirited, and feel sympathy for the denigrated competing brand.
As with negative political advertising, some viewers may think worse of both the mud-slinger and the mud-slingee, and seek out a third alternative.
I think Judge Posner makes a possibly unwarranted assumption; that is, that the sole message of airline advertising is "Fly Airline X instead of Airline Y." I believe that a large portion of airline advertising is simply saying "Fly."
If an airline talks about its competitors delays, consumers won't think "I won't fly Airline Y because it has delays," they will think "I won't fly because airlines have delays." They'll drive instead, or in the Northeast take the Amtrak, or maybe even stay home. In short, there are a wide variety of substitute goods for air travel, and airlines are probably more afraid of these goods than of their competitor airlines.
No airline wants to run an ad that will give it a bigger piece of the pie, but at the same time cause the pie itself to shrink.
"Some cars were safer than others and why didn't the manufacturers of those cars advertise their safety features."
Volvo started promoting their safety advantages decades ago. Competitors eventually emphasized safety in their products and promotion.
I think iNonymous has a keen insight. If public perception of air travel is negative, then airline advertising may be less geared towards inspiring brand purchases than inspiring flying in general - with the hope that by convincing people to fly instead of drive, an advertising airline will get a similarly proportional slice of a larger pie.
If it were an industry-wide promotional issue, then one might except an industry-wide campaign, "Try flying again, it's not as bad as you think! Yes, really! Brought to you by the Better Airlines Association." Something like other brand-insensitive-purchase campaigns; "Beef, it's what's for dinner" or "Pork, the other white meat" or "Milk, it does a body good"
In this manner, airlines could pool their resources and probably achieve better bulk advertising rates and therefore a higher return to marketing investment ratio. But, like other game situations - there would be uncertainty as to who would benefit most from this pooling. If the campaign produces more no-frills passengers, then high-frills airlines would drop out. Airlines might also doubt whether their return was proportional to their contribution. And if airlines elect not to cooperate, they have the chance for full control over the style of advertising over which they can blast their own brand exclusively.
So, if Airline advertising is really trying to get more people to fly in general, then ridiculous efforts to promote a particular brand in those ads are perhaps the result of disputes over risk, return, and control. In other words, the uncooperative (and potentially wasteful) behavior in the market game of air travel.
Just an air traveler observation, I used to fly just about everywhere on business and personal trips and it was an enjoyable way to travel. Now with the anti-terrorist security systems in place, cattle car mentality of the airlines, and a slew of other issues, if the distance traveled is under five hundred miles I'll drive it.
It has nothing to do with advertising, it's just so much simpler and hassle free. Ahh ..., the joys of deregulation!
Politics learned "spin" from advertizers. It is the difference between using the words less or fewer. They don't mean the same and taken out of proper contexts are incorrecvt and misleading.
hello Prof. Posner:
after reading this essay, I got some words to help me understand what had u said. do u think that I get the point?
People received information filtered by them already. So much more information had stored in people's brains and was classified by people's own judgments before. Only the good things were easy to recall and remind. In fact, the things people consumed or used merely in its good aspects. People usually would make use of things good, and therefore did not be misled by information false or incomplete.
Do companies actually know their competitions delay times?
The estate tax make no sense at all. The person has to pay taxes all his life and on the top of that to pay taxes when is dead.
In my view, creating an open market for airline tickets would solve many of the problems of the airline industry. As it is, a person can go online to a site like E*Trade and buy and sell stock. What if a person could go to a site like Expedia and not only buy and but also sell airline tickets?This would have a number of benefits. First, it would shift passenger focus away from price to other aspects of the service (such as on-time arrivals). This would happen because passengers would no longer be worried that the airline had (unfairly) charged them $400 for the same ticket that someone else had only paid $200 for.Second, an open market for airline tickets would allow airlines to more accurately gauge demand. As it is now, most flights are either half full or crammed full (over-booked). An open market would allow airlines to arrange their flights to accurately meet demand.
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Happy birthday to the woman who gave her life to God and her love in service to the poor and needy of the world, Mother Teresa! Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia (formerYugoslavia) to Nikollë and Drane Bojkaxhiu.
Gonxha, or "little flower" in Albanian, was the youngest of three children who sought a holy life as early as her teenage years when she joined Sodality, a youth group in her local parish. This involvement sparked interest in missionary work, whereby she joined the Sisters of Loretto, an Irish Catholic missionary devoted to working in India—what she referred to as her first "calling"—and changed her name to Teresa (after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux).
Among her many roles inIndia, Mother Teresa (Sister Teresa at that time) taught geography and catechism at St. Mary's High School inCalcutta. She later became principal of St. Mary's, but in 1944 had to give up teaching due to tuberculosis. During a train ride toDarjeelingfor her yearly retreat (this time in order to rest), Teresa was blessed with her second calling in life, her self-described "call within a call": to live and work among the poor. She left the Sisters of Loretto in 1948 and pursued her new calling.
Continuing her educational work, Teresa learned basic medicine and treated the sick in their homes. Not long after, former students of hers followed hew work and treated men, women, and children who had been rejected by area hospitals. As the needs of the sick and poor grew and more help was needed, Mother Teresa founded several organizations devoted to the cause:
- Missionaries of Charity in 1950
- The Missionaries of Charity Brothers in 1963
- The contemplative branch of the sisters in 1976
- The contemplative branch of the brothers in 1979
- The Missionaries of Charity Fathers in 1984
The Co-Workers of Mother Teresa and Sick & Suffering Co-Workers were also established for those of many faiths who shared her mission. She also formed the Lay Missionaries of Charity and the Corpus Christi Movement for Priests in 1981.
Mother Teresa's beacon of light was not without its share of extreme darkness, however. From as far back as when her work among the poor and needy began, she confessed to experiencing an undeniable inner feeling of separation, even rejection, from God. She called it "the darkness". Yet it was this very feeling that helped establish an even greater sense of communion with God. By experiencing this intense sense of despair, she was able to help those who felt it even more.
Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, and was recognized both at the time of her death and years later by Pope John Paul II for her holy work and devoted service. A woman of unwavering commitment, her life presented more than an example, but rather a model of compassion, charity, and love to all of whom she touched, healed, and loved.
If you share Mother Teresa's birthday, have a blessed and happy birthday!
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J.K. Rowling has a sense of humour. After it became public that Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym for her new crime novel series, she came to the Theakston's Crime Writing Festival dressed in a suit and tie! Rowling has implied that the new series which started with 'The Cuckoo's Calling', will go the distance as long or longer than the Harry Potter series, with at least six or seven instalments. This second in the series was, in my opinion, way better than the first, so I think she is finding her stride in this genre, and with the characters of Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin. Although I don't think this series holds any of the genius that she displayed with Harry Potter, I am looking forward to what is coming next. The series definitely now 'has legs', a pun in poor taste if you know that the protagonist is a war veteran with a debilitating injury.
'The Silkworm' is set in the literary world of authors and publishers and editors, perhaps because the author knows the publishing industry. When Owen Quine goes missing after writing a despicable controversial book, his wife calls Cormoran Strike to investigate. Quine has gone off before, but when it becomes clear that there are several people who are angry about the poisonous portraits he has written into the new book, and when his body is discovered in brutally bizarre circumstances, the investigator realizes there might be several people who wanted Quine silenced. I love how Cormoran gathers all of the suspects into one room near the end and flushes out the culprit – reminds me of the old classic whodunits. Cormoran as a character, in my mind's eye, kind of reminds me of a younger, more handsome version of Fitz from Cracker (Robbie Coltrane).
Robert Galbraith even has his own website! (Robert Galbraith Website) I especially enjoyed the FAQs there.


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Wife told court Wisconsin spa shooter terrorized her
MILWAUKEE -- A Wisconsin man terrorized his wife for years, threatening to throw acid on her face, dousing her car with tomato juice and slashing her vehicle's tires before finally going to the spa where she worked, opening fire and killing her and two others.
The shooting spree stunned the middle- to upper-class Milwaukee suburb where it happened, but court records show the conflict between Radcliffe Haughton and his wife had been escalating for years.
The 45-year-old former car salesman ultimately shot seven women at the spa before turning the gun on himself. Three remained hospitalized Monday.
Haughton, of Brown Deer, was charged with disorderly conduct last year after police officers responding to a 911 call saw Haughton point what appeared to be a gun at his wife, Zina, from a window at their home. Officers took cover, and a 90-minute standoff ensued.
Brown Deer police said Monday the standoff ended peacefully, and they were never able to confirm a gun was involved because Zina Haughton wouldn't allow them into the couple's home. The charge against Radcliffe Haughton was dropped when a police officer failed to appear in court.
Police said the officer asked the prosecutor to reschedule, but the prosecutor refused. A call to the prosecutor Monday evening rang unanswered.
According to court records, Zina Haughton told police when she called 911 that her husband had thrown her clothes and bedding into the yard and poured tomato juice on her car.
Ernest J. Polk, who lives across the street from the Haughtons' home, said they were friendly to him but he saw signs of turmoil.
"There was always confrontation over there, but I never thought it would come to this," he said. "... It was mostly verbal. I didn't see anything physical."
Zina Haughton told police last year that her husband didn't own any guns, but she was concerned enough about her safety to get a police escort when she went to the house earlier this month to pick up a few items.
Zina Haughton wrote in a restraining order request filed Oct. 8 that her husband had threatened to kill her if she ever left him. He also, at various times, threatened to throw acid on her face and burn her and her family with gas.
"His threats terrorize my every waking moment," Zina Haughton wrote.
She said when she drove to work after picking up items from her home, she found her husband waiting for her in a car outside the spa. He leaned out of the vehicle and, in front of her and two co-workers, slashed her vehicle's tires. He was later arrested.
Radcliffe Haughton appeared in court Thursday, when a judge issued a four-year restraining order and told him to turn in all firearms to a county sheriff. It's not clear whether he turned in any weapons.
He bought the .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun used in the shootings on Saturday, Brown Deer police said in a statement.
People who buy handguns from gun dealers must wait 48 hours after they have cleared a background check from the Department of Justice to pick up their firearm.
There is no such waiting period or background check required in Wisconsin for people who purchase handguns from private individuals, which police say Radcliffe Haughton did.
Two Democratic state lawmakers said Monday that they'll re-introduce a bill designed to ensure that perpetrators of domestic violence comply with judges' orders to surrender their weapons.
The shooting spree also killed Cary Robuck, a 35-year-old nail technician from Racine, and Maelyn Lind, 38, of Oconomowoc.
Shawn Scheffler, who had lived with Robuck for six years, described her as a "bright personality" who loved her part-time job at the spa.
"She was my world," Scheffler said. "That was the woman I was going to spend the rest of my life with, and she was taken from me just like that."
Kathy Sieja, a spokeswoman at the hospital where the survivors were taken, said one woman was released from the hospital Monday afternoon and the others were in satisfactory condition.
The shooting spree that happened about 11 a.m. Sunday triggered chaos in the commercial area around the spa. Believing Haughton had fled, police began a massive, six-hour search that locked down a nearby mall, country club and hospital.
The police chief in Brookfield, where the spa is located, said later that a fire Haughton set in the building, the discovery of a propane tank initially believed to be an improvised explosive device and the layout of the facility, with many small rooms and locked areas, all slowed officers' search and delayed the discovery of the gunman's body.
It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself Aug. 5 at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.
Sunday's shooting took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gunman opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.
-- Associated Press writers Gretchen Ehlke and Scott Bauer in Milwaukee and researchers Lynn Dombek and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.


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